Founded in 1990 the Indigenous Environmental Network is a North American network of Indigenous Peoples fighting for environmental justice & healthy communities.
We are excited to share that pre-registration for the 18th Protecting Mother Earth Conference is open! This year, it will take place on the Qualla Boundary on Cherokee Lands! For more information and to pre-register visit
See you in Cherokee, NC!
Chief Ninawa, President of the Huni Kui People’s Federation of the Brazilian Amazon, is urgently asking for least 15,000 PPE masks & sanitation supplies necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19 racing through his homelands.
Please donate if you can
Centering and uplifting Indigenous voices and knowledge should be an everyday practice when you are living on occupied stolen land.
#landback
#IndigenousPeoplesDay2020
The Andrew Jackson statue at the
@WhiteHouse
was redecorated! Today is
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
but don’t get it twisted, colonization is not over. Native ppls are still fighting settler violence via fossil fuel extraction across Turtle Island!
#PeopleVsFossilFuels
Thousands have traveled to rural northern Minnesota to stand with the Anishinaabe in their homelands to demand
@JoeBiden
#HonortheTreaties
and
#StopLine3
including
@Janefonda
.
Consultation is not consent.
Respecting treaty rights benefit us all not just Indigenous communities.
After more than 10 years -- we have finally defeated an oil and gas giant! Keystone XL is DEAD!
We are dancing in our hearts for this victory!
#NoKXL
#NoTarSands
Native leaders are rounddancing in front of the
@WhiteHouse
after shutting down its entrances to demand climate action & stop fossil fuel projects ✊🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾
#BuildBackFossilFree
BREAKING! Tonight Federal Judge Brian Morris rescinded the Presidential Permit of
#KeystoneXL
Pipeline - in a lawsuit filed by Indigenous Environmental Network
@IENearth
. Judge Morris’s 54-page Order overturns the Trump Administration’s approval of the KXL Pipeline
#NoKXL
Today we must recognize that Thankstaking was designed to hide the ongoing genocide of Indigenous people, even in the present day. Indigenous lands and bodies have been brutalized and exploited for greed for the past 500 years.
We're at
#COP26
to remind
@JoeBiden
the only way to keep global warming below 1.5°C is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Any new fossil fuel production is incompatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement and the false solutions are Article 6 will not save us.
#nixarticle6
Congratulations to all the Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA, people of color who have long fought the systems of colonial white supremacy that embrace the racism Trump represents.
This defeat is because of your hard work, because of your love for your community.
The fight continues.
On
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
, the world celebrates our cultures. But what they don’t see is the ongoing fight to protect and revitalize our cultures, languages, and traditional lifeways.
We fight for regenerative systems that reflect our worldviews and an
#IndigenousJustTransition
!
⚡ 75+ Indigenous women from Tribes & Nations across the country are demanding
@JoeBiden
take executive actions to halt the
#KXL
#DAPL
#Line3
pipeline projects, all of which pose threats to Indigenous Rights, local environments, & our global climate.
BREAKING:
The Army Corp announced that they will not be shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline despite it lacking the proper operating and environmental permits.
For years the
@StandingRockST
has been vocal about their opposition and the project violating their treaty rights.
KXL IS DEAD! We celebrate this as a win for the countless native ppls & allies who held the line for over 10 years!
But it is not a complete victory while oil still flows in
#DAPL
& ppl are getting arrested against
#Line3
. IEN's full statement:
🆘 EYES ON LINE 3 🆘
Dozens of law enforcement officers have surrounded the Water Protectors and their ceremonial tipi down at the Minnesota State Capitol in an attempt to forcibily remove them from the premises!
Many of the Water Protectors have traveled 256 miles ON FOOT to be here at
#TreatiesNotTarSands
to
#StopLine3
🙏🏾 It's hard to tell from the smiles & energy all around us because this is what COMMUNITY IS MEDICINE and PEOPLE POWER look like 💥
Photos: Ron Turney & Chris Trinh
Over 300 Indigenous protectors showed up today to protect unceded Očeti Šakowiŋ land in the Ȟe Sapa, also known as the “Black Hills”, from
@realDonaldTrump
's visit to "Mt Rushmore" Independence Day fireworks show.
12 were arrested.
Help free them here:
Biden Administration Breaks Climate Promise & Approves Willow Project❗️
The Willow Project is a massive oil drilling development in Alaska’s western Arctic that threatens local communities, wildlife & the global climate.
Read our statement at
BREAKING:
Indigenous water protectors have constructed tripod blocks on the street in front of the White House demanding
@JoeBiden
#ShutdownDAPL
and
#StopLine3
.
We will not be ignored. We told you we didn't want these projects in our communities.
Consultation is NOT consent.
BREAKING
#CloseTheCamps
Led by Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island over twenty protectors have locked down the entrance to Ft. Sill— the proposed concentration camp in Lawton, O.K. after over 400 marched to it’s gates.
Demanding
@joebiden
#StopLine3
Indigenous climbers removed the flags today at the Army Corps building in DC replacing them with “Free, Informed and Prior Consent” & “Consultation is Not Consent” flags.
Line 3 impacted tribal nations oppose the project.
#HonorTheTreaties
The U.S. must immediately declare a climate emergency and stop fossil fuel expansion. We reject the framework of “Net Zero”. Frontline communities including those in “sacrifice zones” will bear the disproportionate burden of continued pollution.
#COP26
#FrontlineSolutionaries
1.
The Amazon fires are no accident.
”Look what they did to our reservation. We spent 2 yrs working hard on it. Now our village is in flames. They weren’t satisfied with destroying the river, with our sources of life- now they set our village on fire. We will not stay quiet.”
Our youth are leading the way.
We must uplift and support them. Today, they are leading us to through the streets of DC after a historic week of resistance.
#peoplevsfossilfuels
Good morning from the Minnesota State Capitol! It's a beautiful day for ceremony, solidarity, and action to
#StopLine3
! Check out our feed throughout the day for more of this beautiful
#TreatiesNotTarSands
content!
[Photos: Ron Turney and Chris Trinh]
Tom Goldtooth and Chief Ninawa Huni Kuin are here to challenge carbon pricing and carbon market schemes. These mechanisms do not do enough to stop
#climatechange
. We must keep oil in the ground if we are to survive the climate crisis.
#RiseForClimate
Yesterday, Anishinaabe womxn gathered at Line 3 drill pad set 2 cross the Mississippi 2 draw attention 2 how violence on the land & our bodies are connected. No arrests were made even tho Police threatened 2 do so.
Our communities will not relent.
#StopLine3
@GovTimWalz
"National forests are stolen Indigenous lands and home to sacred sites and are of cultural & historical significance to Indigenous Peoples that must not be disturbed. We must keep fossil fuels in the ground, not expand the polluting industry by fast-tracking CCS." -Tom Goldtooth
Indigenous lands are NOT sacrifice zones. Extractive industries encroach on Indigenous communities, forcing them to bear the brunt of extractive development. Our communities have long been disproportionately impacted by climate change and the forces responsible for creating it.
This fight is done when the oil stops flowing! DAPL continues to violate Indigenous Peoples’ rights and threatens the drinking water of over 10 million people.
Submit your public comment to the USACOE by December 13!
#KillTheBlackSnake
#NoDAPL
#ShutDownDakotaAccess
Call your senators and tell them to support
#DebforInterior
.
Being the first Indigenous person to head the DOI, and second in a Cabinet position, will inspire and provide hope, not only to the Indigenous Peoples of this land, but to all who have vision for the future.
And yet you are allowing Enbridge to remove 5 BILLION GALLONS of water for their dirty tar sands pipeline Line 3.
Do your job and protect Minnesota’s water and wild rice.
#StopLine3
I met with
@POTUS
today to share what I’ve been hearing from Minnesota farmers, ranchers, and livestock producers about the historic drought we’re experiencing. Things are likely going to get worse before they get better. It will take all of us working together to help them out.
Approving the Willow Project, Biden has failed to meet his climate promises, and in the process has violated Indigenous Peoples’ rights and committed the US to more climate pollution.
#StopWillow
#DefendTheSacred
#ProtectTheArctic
BREAKING- 5 water protectors blocking
#Line3
construction were detained and cited by state law enforcement.
We’re sending a clear message to
@JoeBiden
, respect our treaties.
It’s time to require federal agencies secure Free, Prior & Informed Consent from tribal nations.
Our original instructions guide us to steward and sustain precious ecosystems, forests, waterways, and the climate. We are climate leaders because we truly put our values into practice, which is reflected in our dynamic knowledge systems, cultures, and ways of being and knowing.
Join us in celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Each and every day, we celebrate the resilience, diversity and beauty of our communities across Turtle Island. As Indigenous People, we assert our sovereignty to protect our environment and communities.
BREAKING: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been cancelled!
Lumbee leaders have scored a tremendous victory in stopping this fossil fuel pipeline.
#NoACP
.
@JoeBiden
rematriate the land, water & sky!
Indigenous Environmental Network w/ 37 affiliated Native orgs delivered a letter urging Biden to tap
@RepDebHaaland
as the next Secretary of the Department of Interior.
Read the letter here:
Canadian oil corporation Enbridge has been ordered to shut down its Line 5 tar sands oil pipeline and pay the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians $5.1 million.
“Will humans continue on this path that they’re on right now? Or would you and I teach a new path that recognizes that we’re not protecting nature? We are nature protecting itself. We are nature protecting itself, you and I.” -Casey Camp-Horinek
.
@DebHaalandNM
is the 1st Native cabinet secretary & the 1st Native to lead the Department of Interior!! We celebrate this historic and necessary step in healing the relationships with Indigenous peoples.
We look forward to working with the Madam Secretary!
#DebForInterior
The news about DAPL is medicine to us all who fought against the pipeline.
But we must not forget the political prisoners who aren't free after standing for the water and for us all.
-Red Fawn
-Rattler
-Little Feather
-James White
-Dion Ortiz
As the original stewards of these lands, Indigenous Peoples and our Traditional Knowledge is what has, and will continue to sustain these lands for millennia.
#LandBack
is critical in ensuring a sustainable, and livable future for all.
The world may only see us as a figment of the past...but we are here, asserting our rights & reclaiming what is rightfully ours!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
LAND BACK
WATER BACK
CULTURE BACK
CHILDREN BACK
LANGUAGE BACK
CEREMONY BACK
MATRIARCHY BACK
EVERYTHING BACK!
📸: Nedahness Greene
On 9/4/21, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Corey Bush, Ayanna Pressley and Mary Kunesh-Podein came to Camp Namewag at the invitation of Giniw Collective to stand in solidarity and to hear firsthand the voices of our water protectors and land defenders fighting to
#StopLine3
The U.S. must immediately declare a climate emergency and stop fossil fuel expansion. We reject the framework of “Net Zero”. Frontline communities including those in “sacrifice zones” will bear the disproportionate burden of continued pollution.
#COP26
#FrontlineSolutionaries
Haunani-Kay Trask’s work resonated with the global Indigenous community, her fearlessness inspiring activists of all ages and walks of life. IEN sends our love, prayers, and condolences to Kumu Trask’s family and friends.
#RestInPower